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  1. harishankar

    Ports need stability

    > Highly modularized? Yes in terms of Debian maybe, but compared to Gentoo, ArchLinux or FreeBSD (choosing the proper options while compiling), it's rather fat. All I know is that I don't mind a bit of "fatness" when compared to waiting several days to compile stuff on my system. Any which...
  2. harishankar

    Ports need stability

    Stable packages also get security updates in Debian. http://www.debian.org/security/faq. That's why security.debian.org exists. ;) And Backports are a great solution for getting more updated packages in stable. As for "configuring" source packages, 99% of the time I don't need it. And...
  3. harishankar

    Ports need stability

    Absolutely. I think you've hit it. From the time I started using FreeBSD, I realized that the kernel+userland and ports are two different entities. Kernel+userland has a strong and stable record because of the core team, while ports seem to be a little bit flakier entirely because of lack of...
  4. harishankar

    Ports need stability

    I've used Debian for more than 7 years and never had even a single issue with broken packages except when I occasionally played with "unstable" or installed third party packages without proper dependency checking. So I think you're not accurate there by clubbing several Linux distributions...
  5. harishankar

    Ports need stability

    Also regarding the advise on using an "older ports tree". What about the handbook that says this? Eventually things will definitely break if the ports tree is not updated.
  6. harishankar

    Ports need stability

    There is definitely a problem with the ports approach which is why I think there needs to be a more comprehensive approach to packages which keeps packages up to date with no dependencies on ports at all. Otherwise I agree with the OP that you are forced to eventually upgrade everything to...
  7. harishankar

    Open Source Windows-Compatible OS - This is awesome to see =]

    Again going by the level of interest in Windows-compatible productivity in the Open Source/Free Software community I think it's not going to be the most active project around. I also think the advancements in virtualization (virtualbox etc) have taken some steam out of these projects.
  8. harishankar

    Do you like minimalism ? ;)

    Maybe I read your "tone" wrong and thought you were being too aggressive. In any case, my point was that I am not overly worried about getting the most optimized performance so long as the system is reasonably productive. Currently on Debian/Gnome, I don't see a CPU utilization of more...
  9. harishankar

    Do you like minimalism ? ;)

    Heh... of course. "No, I don't" would be even shorter. :)
  10. harishankar

    Do you like minimalism ? ;)

    Beastie, your post is kind of offensive to me, especially the part about "babysitting". I don't need babysitting either. I just think some things that are already available aren't worth configuring by hand in my opinion. Let us all agree that our needs and uses are different. You would never...
  11. harishankar

    Do you like minimalism ? ;)

    I meant that things you need to set up by hand are usually configured by Gnome by default. Much as I love editing files and configuration, I still like a default approach to these things so that I can concentrate on my important work. So do I know that most of the things can be set up manually...
  12. harishankar

    Why did you choose to stay with FreeBSD?

    I'm interested. If you put up a project page, let me know. I'm not too familiar with the technical details of MIDI myself, but once my examinations are over next month I can look into this. I'm also looking to create a simple MIDI GUI application which will interface with Fluidsynth.
  13. harishankar

    Do you like minimalism ? ;)

    Well Gnome still provides additional facilities like integrated ACPI power management, nice(r) anti-aliased fonts, session management, screensavers, convenient menus, notifications, auto-mounting of removable devices through HAL, desktop icons and so on. Besides since I use so many Gnome/GTK...
  14. harishankar

    Why did you choose to stay with FreeBSD?

    Is there a link to your project? Does it use a soft-synth or have you integrated the soft-synth inside your project?
  15. harishankar

    Do you like minimalism ? ;)

    I will be honest here. I tried minimalism before, but I usually end up installing a whole horde of stuff that requires both GTK and Qt (and sometimes Gnome and KDE dependencies). I then thought, why not go the whole hog? I do so many stuff that requires graphics, including drawing comics. It...
  16. harishankar

    Why did you choose to stay with FreeBSD?

    Thanks. Yes, I don't believe in bashing any OS. If I cannot do something with it, I choose another. Also I wish more people showed interest in projects like Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Definitely something that makes package management up to scratch with the ports system. I am a fan of *nix type...
  17. harishankar

    Why did you choose to stay with FreeBSD?

    No the package system is not great - it's more an afterthought to ports and even using tools like pkg_upgrade etc. are not guaranteed to be 100% all right because of ports dependencies. Also upgrading using only packages is a pain because the ports-* tools tend to use the ports version and not...
  18. harishankar

    Screwed up dependencies for gnome-power-manager?

    I realize that, but some build dependencies are very heavy compared to run-time dependencies. I have used Gentoo in the past and I know how many days I left my system running to compile KDE. Even with a faster internet connection I would fear the process. With my slower net connection using...
  19. harishankar

    Screwed up dependencies for gnome-power-manager?

    I will first check whether it is common practice to compile all ports in Gnome with the documentation or whether this is specific to gnome-power-manager. Thanks for the help. I think I now realize why I am avoiding ports even more. :(
  20. harishankar

    Screwed up dependencies for gnome-power-manager?

    Every other Gnome dependency is installed on my system. Why a package needs SGML and docbook is only because the port includes the documentation as well. Ports maintainers should take care to remove the documentation because we really don't need it unless we choose to install it. And...
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